Racism: African Americans

Racism presents one of the evils faced by a human being. It entails atrocities, agony and prejudice towards a set of people by the majority of other people. The foundation of this discrimination bases mostly on the skin color. American population is composed of a large number of African Americans. Unfortunately, this part of the American population endured subjection to a rife and prejudice.

Slavery represents one of the multiple atrocities experienced by African Americans. They started with slavery in order to develop the economy that they were not featured. They were not allowed to participate in the voting process. (Williams, 1992) Moreover, African Americans could not even own their properties. In addition, they could not serve as judges or on juries and had no right to hold offices.

African Americans were dark. They dwelt on urban areas, whereas whites accessed white suburbs that graced almost everywhere. Furthermore, federal highway was made for whites to access suburbs easily and conveniently. African Americans were poor; the worth of their houses was less, and as a result, all forms of crimes were carried out there. (Williams, 1992) In political point of view, they were denied some rights and liberties, for instance, voting rights. Racism caused economic crisis since African Americans were not affected proportionately by the recession.

By 1900, African Americans were separated from whites, and constitutional conventions legalized this segregation. Thereafter laws were approved and made this segregation illegal right after the Civil War. African Americans were subjected to violence to prevent them from fighting for their rights. Voting restrictions were legalized and they had to fight against it marching until President Lyndon came up with Voting Act. Nowadays, the issue of racism has dwindled significantly.